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Jews and Words
A novelist father and his historian daughter describe the intricate relationship between Jews and words, backing up their theory that the Jewish experience is not dependent on historical heroes or rituals, but on the written word passed between generations.
The Israeli Nation-state
"This volume of essays follows a series of international conferences convened in 2010-2012 under the auspices of the Leon Liberman Chair in Modern Israel Studies at the Australia Centre for Jewish Civilisation, Monash University."--Page [v].
The Liberal-republican Quandary in Israel, Europe, and the United States
Compiled by a group of distinguished international scholars including John Pocock, Diana Pinto, Thomas Maissen, and Fania Oz-Salzberger, this volume conjoins Israeli political scholarship with its European and American counterparts, mapping differentials and commonalities.
Ferguson: An Essay on the History of Civil Society
Adam Ferguson's Essay on the History of Civil Society (first published in 1767) is a classic of the Scottish--and European--Enlightenment. Drawing on such diverse sources as classical authors and contemporary travel literature, Ferguson combines a subtle analysis of modern commercial society with a critique of its abandonment of civic and communal virtues. Central themes in Ferguson's theory of citizenship are conflict, play, political participation and military valor. The Essay is a bold and novel attempt to reclaim the tradition of active citizenship in the modern state.
Translating the Enlightenment
This is a study of the transmission of political ideas across languages and cultures, and in particular of a notably fruitful encounter between two distinct branches of eighteenth-century political discourse: the reception of Scottish civic ideas, developed most powerfully in the works of theEdinburgh historian-philosopher Adam Ferguson, by Geman intellectuals of the Enlightenment and Romantic eras.Fania Oz-Salzberger's detailed and challenging analysis places Ferguson in the context of the Scottish Enlightenment, and explores the impact of his theories on German Enlightenment thinkers. She traces the passage of Ferguson's civic humanism across linguistic and cultural borders, and highlightsthe linguistic stumbling-blocks and conceptual tensions that resulted. Dr Oz-Salzberger argues that there resulted a complex and largely unintentional shift of Scottish civic concepts into a German vocabulary of spiritual perfection and inner life, and that the misreading of Ferguson and otherScottish thinkers contributed much to the richness of German intellectual life in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Ferguson: An Essay on the History of Civil Society
Adam Ferguson's Essay on the History of Civil Society (first published in 1767) is a classic of the Scottish - and European - Enlightenment. Drawing on such diverse sources as classical authors and contemporary travel literature, Ferguson offers a complex model of historical advance which challenges both Hume's and Smith's embrace of modernity and the primitivism of Rousseau. Ferguson combines a subtle analysis of the emergence of modern commercial society with a critique of its abandonment of civic and communal virtues. Central to Ferguson's theory of citizenship are the themes of conflict, play, political participation and military valour. The Essay is a bold and novel attempt to reclaim the tradition of active, virtuous citizenship and apply it to the modern state.
Los judíos y las palabras
«Ingenioso y electrizante, Los judíos y las palabras logra aunar más de cinco mil años de plegarias, canciones, historias, argumentaciones, loas, maldiciones y chanzas... Es un libro maravilloso.»Jonathan Safran Foer «Los judíos y las palabras es apasionante y divertido y desafía clichés y estereotipos en cada una de sus páginas. Su tono es en parte serio y en parte jocoso, mezclando un gran dominio del tema con un toque informal. Promete ser muy controvertido y ampliamente leído.»Mario Vargas Llosa ¿Por qué las palabras son tan importantes para los judíos? El novelista Amos Oz y la historiadora Fania Oz-Salzberger engranan hábilmente personalidades de todos los tiempos, desd...
Political Hebraism
Between the 16th and 18th centuries, European political philosophy felt intimately at home with the Hebrew Bible, enjoyed some familiarity with later Jewish texts and exegeses, and accommodated a small number of Jews within its political discourse. The period was characterized by a search for Hebraica Veritas, a view of De Republica Hebraeorum as the idealized polity, and biblical and Jewish ideas permeating the political imagination through art, literature, and legal codes. This volume is comprised of papers from the first ever international conference on political Hebraism held in Jerusalem in August 2004 under the auspices of the Shalem Center. The topic of political Hebraism is broached here from a number of approaches, including historical, literary, philosophical, theological, critical, and sociopolitical.
OS JUDEUS E AS PALAVRAS
Nesse livro que mistura narrativa e erudição, conversa e argumento, o romancista Amós Oz e sua filha, a historiadora Fania Oz-Salzberger, contam as histórias por trás dos nomes, dos textos, das disputas e dos adágios mais duradouros do judaísmo. As palavras, eles argumentam, compõem o elo entre Abraão e os judeus de todas as gerações subsequentes. Continuidade, mulheres, atemporalidade, individualismo - o rol de temas abordados é vasto. Oz e Oz-Salzberger revisitam personalidades judaicas através das eras, da suposta autora do Cântico dos Cânticos aos obscuros Talmudistas e autores contemporâneos. Eles sugerem que a longevidade da cultura judaica, e até mesmo a singularidade...
Juden und Worte
Juden und Worte bilden von jeher eine enge Verbindung. Amos Oz und seine Tochter Fania Oz-Salzberger, die als Historikerin lehrt, erkunden jüdische Wortwelten, Wörter, ihre alten wie neuen Bedeutungen, Auslegungen und Wandlungen, die 22 Buchstaben des hebräischen Alphabets. Kontinuität im Judentum war immer ans mündlich geäußerte und geschriebene Wort geknüpft, an ein ausuferndes Geflecht von Interpretationen, Debatten, Streitigkeiten. In der Synagoge wie in der Schule, vor allem aber zu Hause umspannte es zwei oder drei ins Gespräch vertiefte Generationen. Was Juden untereinander verbindet, sind Texte. Es ist mit Händen zu greifen, in welchem Sinne Abraham und Sara, Rabban Gamiel,...
